Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was a counterculture of the '60s, there was a counter cuIture.
From his Oscar-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of pals in transition. Film-debuting EIlen Barkin plays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy DaIy and PauI Reiser - chosen from over 600 hopefuls - pIay the up-aIl-night buddies who work out the remnants of adoIescence during ritual grazings at a busy steeI-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 BaItimore. Stars, laughs, interlocking stories: entertainment is the daily special in Diner. |